Monday, May 27, 2013

This post or a comment I left on it brought someone to my door today and me to it. Hindsight is 20/20 but boy did so many people lose so much even after refusing the great advice of the smartest domainer alive. Go figure. (well I can go figure because I refuted even better advice one day from Frank).Here is the entire post and the original link (hard to be otherwise found)

1.) Disney now runs commercials flaunting their dotMobi (HSM2.mobi) leveraging the very popular High School Musical 2 brand.

2.) Bank of America (The largest bank in the United States)has adopted .mobi by launching commercials featuring an Olympic star using BOFA.mobi and they promote BOFA.mobi throughout their bank branches.

3.) ESPN now runs promotions for ESPN.mobi on there website and during their broadcast commercials.

However, dotMobi is increasingly becoming the most popular extension to emerge since dotcom.

dotMobi is a global extension whose intention is purposeful -- bringing user-friendly content/standards to the MobileWeb.

All said results by dotMobi have been accomplished in only 1 year. Heck, all the other top-level domain extensions are 5, 10, 15 years old!

Frank, now that time has unfolded what are your current impressions with respect to dotMobi?

Thank you,

William

***FS*** Thanks William. I still won't buy them.. but perhaps I'm simply stubborn.. Don't let me influence you, but I am avoiding them because the extension makes no sense to me (iphone browsing with .com key). It gets no advantage in a mobile setting and has no natural organic traffic. I still don't see them in use (on tv) nor do i use the extension myself .. Again, thanks for your comment.. and question.

Ugggh!! Parsons needs to hire a couple people that know what they're doing attracting and qualifying premium names to auction. Most of these I'd debate paying to reg. Several are newer regs only a couple to few months old and show it. Ugly babies for sure. Also isn't the .mobi craze over? Don't make sense to me.John

For their inagural GoDaddy auction this is a 2nd class bunch of domains. GoDaddy definately needs to hire someone more qualified to provide input and seek out quality names. It will be very interesting to see what they sell for.